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Victoria Gallery presents a large exhibition project"Garden of Utopias"dedicated to utopia as a creative method and way of thinking.
The exhibition is conditionally divided into three zones: housing, city and garden, each of which is filled with a variety of works: prints, books, drawings, layouts, dishes, sculpture, installation and video, wandering among which, you can get acquainted with the projects of foreign and Russian artists from XVIII century to the present, from French classicism to Samara sovriska.
The choice of works and exposition are determined more poetically, by rhymes and associations, than methodically. The general background for the exhibition was the installation of Alisa Nikolaeva “Fountain” (2020), which turned the entire gallery into an urban garden.
A fantastic future will be presented at the exhibition by the drawings of Flying City by George Krutikov (1928), Suprematist dishes from Kazimir Malevich and absurd rationalization fantasies from the book of William Heath Robinson “How to Live in an Apartment” (1936), “retro utopias” by Giovanni Battista Piranesi, who depicts colossal antique ruins against the backdrop of modern Rome, and the work of Samara artist Alexander Filimonov “When and under what circumstances the first time I saw art” (2020), where masterpieces of art are located in the interiors of the cheeks, like windows into parallel worlds, teasing and blind. In his photo project “Wonderful Day” (2018), Sergey Sapozhnikov photographs the interiors of the abandoned Palazzo Costantino in Palermo and integrates the images into the working buildings of the state farm in the Rostov Region, in the artist’s homeland. This neighborhood is retro-utopian, sentimental and ironic at the same time. Similarly, the French artist Absalon fakes life in his Housing Decisions (1992): they both refer to homes in the Middle East, where he comes from, cheap housing on the outskirts of Paris and a modernistic obsession with economy. The self-revealing pathos of utopia is used in their installations by Irina Korina (2006) and the art group “ZIP” (2017).
Based on site materialsGalleries Victoria.
The exhibition is conditionally divided into three zones: housing, city and garden, each of which is filled with a variety of works: prints, books, drawings, layouts, dishes, sculpture, installation and video, wandering among which, you can get acquainted with the projects of foreign and Russian artists from XVIII century to the present, from French classicism to Samara sovriska.
The choice of works and exposition are determined more poetically, by rhymes and associations, than methodically. The general background for the exhibition was the installation of Alisa Nikolaeva “Fountain” (2020), which turned the entire gallery into an urban garden.
A fantastic future will be presented at the exhibition by the drawings of Flying City by George Krutikov (1928), Suprematist dishes from Kazimir Malevich and absurd rationalization fantasies from the book of William Heath Robinson “How to Live in an Apartment” (1936), “retro utopias” by Giovanni Battista Piranesi, who depicts colossal antique ruins against the backdrop of modern Rome, and the work of Samara artist Alexander Filimonov “When and under what circumstances the first time I saw art” (2020), where masterpieces of art are located in the interiors of the cheeks, like windows into parallel worlds, teasing and blind. In his photo project “Wonderful Day” (2018), Sergey Sapozhnikov photographs the interiors of the abandoned Palazzo Costantino in Palermo and integrates the images into the working buildings of the state farm in the Rostov Region, in the artist’s homeland. This neighborhood is retro-utopian, sentimental and ironic at the same time. Similarly, the French artist Absalon fakes life in his Housing Decisions (1992): they both refer to homes in the Middle East, where he comes from, cheap housing on the outskirts of Paris and a modernistic obsession with economy. The self-revealing pathos of utopia is used in their installations by Irina Korina (2006) and the art group “ZIP” (2017).
Based on site materialsGalleries Victoria.
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